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READER SUBMITTED: Tzofim Friendship Caravan Visits The Watermark
SouthburyIsrael's Tzofim Friendship Caravan recently visited The Watermark at East Hill retirement community in Southbury. The performing troupe is comprised of ten teenagers and two adult leaders who travel throughout the United States and Canada each summer...Tags: Human Interest, Israel, Southbury, Arts and Culture
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How To Parent Is A Hot-Button Topic
If my parents told me once, they told me at least one hundred times, "Don't talk to anyone about their religious or political beliefs." They meant, of course, that those topics are likely to generate tension and angry conflict. As such, they were not...Tags: Family, Mental Health, Religion and Belief, Philosophy, Arts and Culture
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Andy Brown, Nicholas Payton, Wynton Marsalis hit Chicago
Inspiring music-making isn't necessarily loud, aggressive, self-aggrandizing or heavily promoted. Consider what happens early every Wednesday night at Andy's Jazz Club, where the superb but serenely understated Chicago guitarist Andy Brown leads a...
Tags: Culture, Theater, Concerts, Entertainment, Lincoln Center
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Barbra Streisand raps Orthodox Jews' actions against Israeli women
ReutersJERUSALEM, June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. entertainer Barbra Streisand on Monday took a swipe at Orthodox Jews in Israel who compel women to sit in the back of buses and assault them for following religious rituals traditionally reserved for men. "It's...Tags: Minority Groups, Christianity, Christian Orthodoxy, Feminism, Judaism
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Spendthrift elite signals equity slide, behavioural experts warn
Reuters* Behavioural experts predict equity market crash * Use of social media to predict trends growing * Social mood reflected in art, leisure peaks By Atul Prakash LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Record prices at art auctions in recent weeks and...Tags: Financial Markets, Media Industry, Investments, Social Media, Religion and Belief
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Spendthrift elite signals equity slide, behavioral experts warn
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Record prices at art auctions in recent weeks and oversubscribed holidays by private jet are among signals that a stock market slump is approaching, if followers of behavioral finance are to be believed. They insist social mood governs...Tags: Financial Markets, Media Industry, Investments, Social Media, Religion and Belief
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Welfare limits tied to more deaths over time: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pressuring welfare recipients to get a job or face losing their benefits may put them at a slightly increased risk of dying over the long term, according to new research. A study that tracked Floridians on welfare over...Tags: Politics, New York University, Pension and Welfare, Columbia University, Demographics
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New set of traditions to greet Hawks in Boston
BOSTON — Torey Krug can be forgiven for not having a favorite Bruins game tradition. In the five home games he has played at TD Garden in the last two months, the defenseman has been a little more concerned with making his playoff debut. But the...
Tags: TD Garden, Dropkick Murphys (music group), Tyler Seguin, Entertainment, Sports
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Dive into free summer fun
Everything seems to keep getting more expensive. But summer fun doesn't have to drain your pocketbook. There are free activities all over the Lehigh Valley, from theater performances to movies to bowling. Some activities are just for the kids, but there...
Tags: Pinocchio (movie), Binney and Smith, Sports, The Muppets (movie), Track Cycling
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Wendy Paulson, birder and conservationist
It takes a trained ear to know the call of the grasshopper sparrow. Or a bobolink. Or even a meadowlark. For Wendy Paulson, standing in the grasslands of North Barrington and focusing her telescope on a rare savannah sparrow for all to see, it brings...
Tags: Conservation, Chicago Public Schools, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Endangered Species
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'The Son' rises with the saga of a Texas family
"Being a writer and a Texan," Larry McMurtry wrote in the late 1960s, "is an amusing fate." What he was addressing was the shift, in the years after World War II, "from the land to the cities" and what he saw as "the dying of … the rural,...Tags: Fiction, Book, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes
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Religion - Speakers and topics
Beaver Creek Christian Church, the Rev. Mark Curran will preach at the 9:30 a.m. service Sunday on “Offering Good News.” Lay leader is Sandy Curran. Sunday school follows worship. Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren, Pastor Rachel Black...Tags: Methodist, Christianity, Mennonite Central Committee, Reformed, Entertainment
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